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A vintage 1903 espresso machine at a Village cafe (2012) (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
51 points by Drunk_Engineer on May 23, 2024 | past | 29 comments
The ghost of a colonial road on the eastern side of the Chrysler Building (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
64 points by cvarjas on Dec 27, 2023 | past | 23 comments
The short life of New York City’s first skyscraper (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
143 points by benbreen on Oct 2, 2023 | past | 40 comments
A magnificent 1850s house dubbed the Blue Belle of Brooklyn (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
71 points by samclemens on Sept 22, 2023 | past | 13 comments
Quiet glimpses of the turn of the century NYC through an amateur’s camera (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
32 points by prismatic on Jan 31, 2022 | past | 10 comments
The 1950s plan for a Washington Square Highway (2014) (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
19 points by samclemens on Dec 31, 2020 | past | 18 comments
How New York became a metropolis of stoops (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
72 points by animalcule on Dec 27, 2020 | past | 23 comments
How New York became a metropolis of stoops (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
1 point by samclemens on Dec 23, 2020 | past
Brighton Beach Hotel building was moved as a whole 495 feet inland (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
2 points by ctepa on April 30, 2020 | past
How yellow fever rebranded a Brooklyn village (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
5 points by smacktoward on April 27, 2020 | past | 1 comment
A Mob Torches New York’s Quarantine Hospital (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
3 points by smacktoward on April 20, 2020 | past
This Upper East Side school still has boot scrapers (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
2 points by smacktoward on April 20, 2020 | past
The tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
4 points by smacktoward on March 23, 2020 | past | 1 comment
A department store becomes a makeshift hospital (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
2 points by smacktoward on March 23, 2020 | past
Tracking the “Mousetrap” of Greenwich Village (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
2 points by smacktoward on March 2, 2020 | past
The lasting power of an East Village war memorial (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
1 point by smacktoward on Nov 11, 2019 | past
The rise and fall of the 1856 “House of Mansions” (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
1 point by smacktoward on Oct 14, 2019 | past
The Last Years in Edgar Allan Poe’s Bronx Cottage (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
2 points by smacktoward on Oct 7, 2019 | past
Where the Hangman Lived on Washington Square (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
21 points by smacktoward on Sept 30, 2019 | past | 2 comments
The First New York Tenement Is on Mott Street (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
1 point by smacktoward on Aug 12, 2019 | past
What a tourist saw on a trip to New York in 1970 (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
3 points by smacktoward on July 8, 2019 | past
The red fire alarm relics on New York streets (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
1 point by smacktoward on April 29, 2019 | past
When “play streets” let New York kids run free (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
2 points by smacktoward on April 15, 2019 | past
The “bobbed-hair bandit” on the run in Brooklyn (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
19 points by smacktoward on Feb 11, 2019 | past | 9 comments
Ephemeral New York: Chronicling an ever-changing city through faded artifacts (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
1 point by smacktoward on Jan 23, 2019 | past
How New York City Invented the Penthouse (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
2 points by smacktoward on Dec 31, 2018 | past
A 19th century mayor’s fascinating social diary (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
1 point by smacktoward on Dec 17, 2018 | past
The story of a Gilded Age anti-noise crusade (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
1 point by smacktoward on Aug 6, 2018 | past
New York’s old public bath buildings still inspire (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
2 points by smacktoward on May 29, 2017 | past
The sudden demise of New York’s organ grinders (ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
4 points by smacktoward on Jan 5, 2015 | past

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